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Fair Finance: The women entrepreneurs lifting communities out of poverty

31 January 2021

Helping women start and grow businesses in the world’s poorest countries is a path to lifting them and their families out of poverty, the high-profile businesswoman, and new UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Goodwill Ambassador Sonia Gardner, has told UN News, in the second of our two part series this weekend, on the role the financial sector can play in reducing inequality.

A family from the Hmong ethnic minority in Vietnam.

Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

30 January 2021

Global

Reducing inequality is one of the UN’s flagship goals, but the gulf between rich and poor worldwide, remains persistently high. In the first of a special two-part series on the financial sector this weekend, Hiro Mizuno, the newly-appointed UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments, explains how the industry can help to create a fairer, more equitable world.

Some 20 million children in the EU are at risk of poverty according to the Special Rapporteur's report.

World Bank/Mano Strauch

EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty

29 January 2021

Europe

The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, urging the bloc to boldly rethink its whole socio-economic approach.

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A vaccination programme against peste des petits ruminants is carried out in Samburu in central Kenya in September 2017.

©FAO/Luis Tato

UN reports major progress towards eradicating sheep and goat plague

13 January 2021

Global

The world is moving closer to stamping out a highly contagious disease that affects sheep and goats, but also the livelihoods of millions of families who depend on these animals for food and income, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.

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